Chapter 4: Behavioral Approach
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Q1) Which scholar(s)explored leadership behavior on performance of small groups?
A) Ohio State studies
B) Stogdill
C) University of Michigan studies
D) Blake and Mouton
Q2) Considering Blake and Mouton's Leadership Grid,what variable is along the x-axis?
Q3) Write a scenario in which middle-of-the road leadership style would be the optimal choice.How would it be preferable to each of the other four leadership styles on the grid?
Q4) Middle-of-the-road management best describes leaders who are ______.
A) avoiding
B) empathetic
C) compromising
D) accommodating
Q5) In the Leadership Grid,a person who uses but does not integrate the 1,9 and 9,1 behavioral styles of leadership could be called a "benevolent dictator."
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Situational Approach
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Q1) A basic assumption of the SLII is that employees' skills and motivation vary over time.Do you agree? Can you think of any exceptions? Does the SLII fit all work situations equally well?
Q2) Jocelyn is struggling to grasp the process of a new job you have given her.She states she understands the outcome of the project,but not how to start the project.She looks miserable and uninterested in trying to start the project.Which alternative represents the most effective leadership style you should use with Jocelyn?
A) discuss the initial steps and ask her for input on alternative ways she could get started
B) specify what she must do to complete the tasks and let her get started
C) define the steps necessary to complete the assigned tasks and monitor her performance frequently
D) let her know she just needs to get started now
Q3) SLII is used by many corporations to train leaders.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In SLII,Style 2 is low directive and low supportive.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Path-Goal Theory
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Q1) Your supervisor expresses concern for your well-being when he learns of the passing of your father.He is using ______.
A) directive behaviors
B) achievement behaviors
C) supportive behaviors
D) participative behaviors
Q2) In path-goal theory,leaders can chose from ______ types of behaviors.
A) two
B) three
C) four
D) five
Q3) In path-goal theory,when tasks are ambiguous,three different styles of leadership are prescribed.How would a leader know which one to choose?
Q4) Leaders who are friendly and approachable are using ______.
A) directive behaviors
B) achievement behaviors
C) supportive behaviors
D) participative behaviors
Q5) Briefly describe one criticism of path-goal theory.
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Chapter 7: Leadermember Exchange Theory
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Q1) The early research on LMX theory was called ______.
A) group classification theory
B) vertical dyad linkage theory
C) didactic linkage theory
D) horizontal dyad linkage theory
Q2) LMX focuses on ______.
A) matching leader behaviors to followers' development levels
B) the integration of task and relationship behaviors
C) matching the leader behavior to follower characteristics
D) the dyadic relationship between the leader and follower
Q3) Before LMX theory,researchers treated leadership as something ______.
A) leaders did toward all of their followers
B) present within the individual actions of followers
C) existing between the leader and each of his or her followers
D) as an exclusively two-way, one-dimensional form of communication
Q4) Which of the following is a criticism of LMX?
A) It alerts leaders to their biases.
B) It is a unique approach that looks at dyadic relationships.
C) LMX does not fully explain the creation of high-quality exchanges.
D) It directs our attention to the importance of communication in leadership.
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Chapter 8: Transformational Leadership
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Q1) Your boss gives you a project to accomplish by the end of the week.She does not check in with you at all until Friday when she reviews your work and tells you that you made several mistakes and must do the project over.Your boss was using which factor of transactional leadership?
Q2) Transformational leaders are considered social architects when they ______. A) create shared meanings for people within their organizations
B) maintain social relationships with individuals throughout the organization
C) develop social strategies and techniques
D) are strong, affable examples for their followers
Q3) Which personality characteristic of charismatic leadership is also one of the major leadership traits outlined in the chapter on Trait Approach?
A) dominance
B) self-confidence
C) morality
D) influential
Q4) A criticism of transformational leadership is that it treats leadership as a personality trait.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Authentic Leadership
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Q1) I am positive and focused and use will power to keep me and my staff motivated to accomplish goals.What influencing factor of authentic leadership am I using?
A) moral reasoning
B) integrity
C) hope
D) confidence
Q2) Critical life events affect authentic leadership because ______.
A) they influence a multitude of people
B) they act as a catalyst for change
C) they are a common occurrence
D) they reinforce patterned behaviors
Q3) Which researcher developed a practical approach to authentic leadership?
A) Avolio
B) Walumbwa
C) George
D) Liden
Q4) There is no single accepted definition of authentic leadership.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why is a compass sometimes used as a symbol for authentic leadership?
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Chapter 10: Servant Leadership
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Q1) My leader gently but clearly convinces me to change.He is using which characteristic of a servant leader?
A) foresight
B) awareness
C) persuasion
D) conceptualization
Q2) Servant leadership is not used widely in leadership training programs.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The qualities and disposition of the leader describe ______.
A) leader behaviors
B) leader attributes
C) ethical perspective
D) follower growth
Q4) In recent studies,servant leadership has been shown to increase all of the following except ______.
A) organizational citizenship behavior
B) intrinsic motivation
C) willingness to help coworkers
D) employee turnover
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Chapter 11: Adaptive Leadership
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Q1) Creating a holding environment helps regulate distress because ______.
A) it is a space where conflict gets out of control and leaders support this process
B) it provides an optimal balance of both safety and tension to allow work to happen
C) negotiations are heated up on purpose to create overwhelming tension and people pick sides
D) there is no pressure to create new contractual relationships while negotiations occur in the holding space
Q2) Which leader behavior in the adaptive leadership model means the leader needs to encourage people to focus on the tough work that needs to be done?
A) identify adaptive challenges
B) regulate distress
C) give the work back to the people
D) maintain disciplined attention
Q3) A prerequisite for all of the other adaptive leader behaviors is to regulate distress.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Followership
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Q1) The main distinction between Kellerman's typology of followers and those of Zaleznik,Chaleff,and Kelley is ______.
A) Kellerman does not take engagement level into consideration while the other scholars do
B) Kellerman surveyed thousands of business executives to arrive at her empirical model
C) Kellerman views followers along a single continuum while other scholars use two dimensions
D) Kellerman's typology includes more types of followers than the models of all others
Q2) Chaleff studied the role of followers because he was impacted as a young person when ______.
A) he took on the role of leader to his younger sisters when his parents died
B) his father was seriously injured in a workplace riot
C) he was routinely bullied at school and left out of peer groups
D) he learned about Hitler and the horrors of the World War II holocaust
Q3) The followership approach is both descriptive and prescriptive in nature.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 13: Leadership Ethics
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Q1) As a leader,I listen closely to my followers' beliefs,values,and attitudes and allow them to use their creativity as I nurture their work.I am using which ethical leadership principle?
A) respects others
B) builds community
C) shows justice
D) manifests honesty
Q2) Which of the following is not a principle of ethical leadership?
A) service
B) sociability
C) justice
D) community
Q3) Altruistic service behaviors are not observed in ______.
A) mentoring
B) self-promoting
C) empowering D) team building
Q4) Discuss the relationship between honesty and leadership.
Q5) Name at least two other leadership theories you have studied that take leadership ethics into account.
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Chapter 14: Team Leadership
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Q1) External environmental actions include ______.
A) coaching
B) structuring for results
C) modeling principles
D) advocating
Q2) One of the potential benefits to a team of a slow-to-act leader is ______.
A) increased positional leadership
B) decreased decision effectiveness
C) encouraging team members to emerge as leaders
D) preventing problems from getting out of control
Q3) Effective team performance is said to begin with the leader doing what?
Q4) Contemporary organizations are relying more and more on teams for all of the following reasons except ______.
A) increasingly complex tasks
B) flattening of organizational structures
C) more globalization
D) lack of leadership potential
Q5) Teams with distributed leadership have some advantages over single leader teams.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Gender and Leadership
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Q1) What is not a result found by meta-analyses on characteristics and behaviors of female and male leaders?
A) women devalued when they worked in male-dominated environments.
B) women devalued when the evaluators were men.
C) women evaluated favorably when they used directive or autocratic styles.
D) women led in a more democratic style than men.
Q2) Name three counties in the world with a woman currently or recently occupying the highest level of political leadership.
Q3) Which of the following statements is false?
A) women are showing a greater presence in top leadership positions
B) men earn more bachelor's degrees than women
C) women still have less employment continuity than men
D) organizations with women heading them have more financial success
Q4) When studying gender differences in transformational leadership,which statement is true?
A) men use more transformational leadership
B) women using transformational leadership are highly valued
C) women engage in more contingent reward than men
D) men are devalued when using transformational leadership
Q5) What evidence is there for the existence of a glass ceiling?
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Chapter 16: Culture and Leadership
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Q1) Training and development programs using the cultural behaviors,dimensions,and clusters from the GLOBE studies could focus on all except which of the following topics to help leaders be more effective in working with others from different cultures?
A) teaching cultural sensitivity
B) helping individuals understand their own cultural biases
C) new employee orientation programs
D) present stereotypical behaviors from multiple cultures
Q2) Global leaders need to be skilled in creating transcultural visions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In my organization,women and men share power and influence equally.My organization uses a high degree of which dimension of culture?
A) power distance
B) humane orientation
C) institutional collectivism
D) gender egalitarianism
Q4) Ethnocentrism can be a major obstacle to effective leadership.
A)True
B)False
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